Re: [PATCH] format-patch --signoff

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Hi,

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I don't know, but it may be a good idea to make this more general: Why not 
> > build the sign-off line here, so that you could also add more than one 
> > sign-off lines ('--signoff="The great committer <ter@xxxxxxx>"'), and 
> > maybe even Acked-by's?
> 
> Perhaps.
> 
> > Okay, this would be a little harder with multiple sign-offs. But the check 
> > could be easier, i.e. if we say
> >
> > 	rev.add_signoff = xmalloc(enough_room);
> > 	strcpy(rev.add_signoff, "\nSigned-off-by: ");
> > 	strcat(rev.add_signoff, committer_ident);
> > 	strcat(rev.add_signoff, "\n");
> >
> > then a simple
> >
> > 	p = strstr(commit_buffer, rev.add_signoff);
> > 	if (p)
> > 		return (int)(p - commit_buffer);
> >
> > would do the trick.
> 
> Do you mean, by "multiple sign-offs", something like this?
> 
> 	for (so_list = rev.add_signoff; so_list; so_list = so_list->next) {
> 		if (strstr(commit_buffer, so_list->item))
>                 	continue;
>                 append_to_commit_buffer(so_list->item);
> 	}
> 	return tail - commit_buffer;

Actually, I did not think of a linked list, but one buffer, but I like 
your solution better.

> > And shouldn't we error out if there is not enough room for a sign-off?
> 
> I do not think we error out if the commit message is too long
> either, so...

... so you could say that should be an error, too.

Ciao,
Dscho

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